Athenians and Spartans sound bad. Is there some hipster City that had less pederasty, more rights for women, and fewer slaves in intensive occupations?
Athenians and Spartans sound bad. Is there some hipster City that had less pederasty, more rights for women, and fewer slaves in intensive occupations?
I think I confused sparta with the hypothetical society from plato's republic where the warriors own no property. should keep my mouth shut on things i know nothing about.
Sparta also gets mythologized that way because there was some communality of property (but not land/capital) within the ruling class and a lot of what is said about them tends to skip over the whole "they were landlords living on the backs of slaves they repeatedly did pogroms against as a form of terrorism and control" stuff.